From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:39:28 +0000 Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... Message-Id: <20080325.173928.67585726.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <20080325.162244.61337214.davem@davemloft.net> <87tziu5q37.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dmosberger@gmail.com Cc: peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au, clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au From: "David Mosberger-Tang" Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:34:13 -0600 > Why not just repeat the PTEs for super-pages? This is basically how we implement hugepages in the page tables on sparc64.